By: Phillip Jacobs

50 years ago TW ADorno- and Bruno Bettelheim, part of the Frankfurt school of psychology “tried to make sense of the Nazi hatred of Jews. They developed the concept of the authoritarian personality and the concept of” identification with the aggressor”. identification, with the aggressor means that when you deprecate and hate a minority group for a long time very intensely inevitably that minority group begins to believe that they are to blame and begins to internalize what they hate mongers say about them. This has also been called the Stockholm syndrome after the hostage situation in Stockholm.

This perfectly describes what has happened to the Jewish people in 2000 years of exile from their homeland and power

The Egyptian pharaoh, the Greeks, the pagan world, the Christian world, Islam, communism, and socialist progressivism now in America, all ascribe, horrible delusional, things and horrible delusional characteristics to Jews, and now to the state of Israel

1000 years ago, Rashi realized that everything Jew – haters say are just delusions that are projected on Jewish people, and that these delusional fantasies stem from flaws that the haters see in themselves, not behavior of the Jewish

This perfectly describes the current situation regarding hatred of Jews and the state of Israel post October 7.

Every allegation of genocide, every allegation of purposefully starving children in Gaza, every allegation of undue influence in American foreign policy, every allegation of control of the media or control of the world’s banks, or even, according to Marjorie Taylor Greene, control of the cosmos and weather in the universe, are fantastical delusions that have absolutely no grounding in fact.

The plain simple truth is that the Jewish people since their exile, and in the modern state of Israel, are an exemplary people, fulfilling their prophetic vision of being a light unto the nations, and have acted more morally, sensitive, more compassionate, and have more adhered to Rabbi Hillel’s dictum not to do what is distasteful to you to others more than any other western civilization on the face of the Earth.

The Jewish people are absolutely and utterly blameless and completely, and totally innocent of the defamatory charges with which haters of the Jewish people and Israel slander them.

It is exactly as if a poor young woman was on trial in Salem, Massachusetts for witchcraft while trying to convince her benighted tormentors and inquisitors that she was not in fact a witch.

For the Jewish people and the state of Israel, to think they can use sweet reason, logic, data and facts to dispel the psychotic fantastical delusions that are thrown on them is a Chimera. it is our destiny as Jewish people due to our tiny numbers to forever be subject to these absurd, psychotic delusions.

Our sages teach us in the talmud that it is not up to us to complete the task, but we must never stop working towards that completion. This perfectly describes and must inform our efforts regarding Jew hatred and antisemitism.

But we do need to have the humility to realize we are dealing with crazy ideas projecting on us for crazy reasons.

The delusional racist charges against the Jewish people and Israel are often mutually exclusive and blatantly contradictory; we’re communists and bloodsucking capitalists; bloodthirsty, violent, wanton killers inGazaq and pitiful cowards who never stand up for ourselves, etc., etc. etc.

As a child, I believed some of the nonsensical delusional tropes, but then realized how bogus they were, and then realized, and fully appreciated our moral superiority based on adherence to Torah values .

Along with fighting antisemitism and Jew hatred wherever it raises, it’s ugly head we must never ever stop impressing upon our youth the moral exemplar that has been the Jewish people and the state of Israel.